<ol>
<li>1940 (CR- 680, Math-660, Writing-600)</li>
<li>twice (second score has not come out yet)</li>
<li>20</li>
<li>11</li>
<li>Gruber’s, Kaplan, Princeton Review, I also go to Karen Dillard’s College SAT prep center</li>
<li>beginning of tenth grade</li>
<li>2200 plus</li>
<li>Writing by far</li>
<li>UT austin, UT Dallas, Austin College, Southwestern University</li>
<li>two more (for the may one- i have about a month)</li>
</ol>
<p>@bang: take 15 more practice tests. for math, solve a lot of miscellaneous problems, and buy klasstutoring solutions for the bb to understand whats really going on.
so more practice tests for you. from 2200 to 2300, you need a lot of practice to cut silly mistakes
btw it’s relevant to see what you are prepping for. you know, if you want to go to like millersville university, you dont need a 2250+</p>
<p>@celebcj
buy REA’s PSAT prep, memorize all the words within REA (i also had REA, i think best book for PSAT prep and solve practice tests for the SAT. skip the essay section. take about 25+ practice tests.)</p>
<p>@zhangm94
not a really hard case. just solve 30+ practice tests. half of the BB is only like 5 practice tests.
buy kaplans 12
pr 11
and mc graw hills practice tests</p>
<p>@Swimfan1994
get rid of barrons till you finish
kaplans 12
pr 11
and mc graw hills practice tests
and then go back to barons and check out how u are doing.</p>
<p>@hhyy365
i think you need to brush up the basics, and then you have the potential of getting at least 2250+.
get rocket review for CR, direct hits and hot vocab for CR;
math, get grubers complete guide for the new sat '(2005 edition is fantastic, not a lot of money, same material)
then start taking practice tests, after you know how to approach some of the questions.
finish BB asap, then start with kaplans 12 practice tests and princeton r. 11 practice tests.</p>
<p>@motivated_101
thats a pretty respectable score for just doing 10 practice tests.
buy 35 more to get into the range of 2250</p>
<p>@skeeppudi
good, do grubers and kaplan, for writing, i suggest making a template for the essay section and memorizing the format.
then do 11 more practice tests. does dillards SAT Prep center help?
by kaplan, pr, do you mean a guide or practice tests?</p>
<p>best of luck to all of you</p>
<ol>
<li>Score Range 181 PSAT (68 M, 55 CR 58 W)</li>
<li>How many times did you take the SAT? 0</li>
<li>How many practice tests did you use? 0 for the PSAT, but 2 so far</li>
<li>Your current grade 11</li>
<li>Which books did you use? Princeton Review (Should i buy the BB)</li>
<li>You have been practicing since…? February 2010</li>
<li>What is your ideal score range (that seems possible to you) 2000</li>
<li>What is your weakest section? Critical reading</li>
<li>Which colleges are you applying for? Ivies and other prestigious LAC’s (top 50’s)</li>
<li>Lastly, how many times are you going to take the SAT (indicate how much time you have left for practice) - Taking the SAT in MAY and again in October</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Score Range - 2200-2400</li>
<li>How many times did you take the SAT? - Twice 2100(630 CR) –> 2200(800 W(80MC 10e) 800 M 600 CR)</li>
<li>How many practice tests did you use? - 15</li>
<li>Your current grade - 11</li>
<li>Which books did you use? - Collegeboard study guides</li>
<li>You have been practicing since…? - Summer before junior year</li>
<li>What is your ideal score range (that seems possible to you) - 2330+ (above 730 CR)</li>
<li>What is your weakest section? - Only CR (other 2 are 800)</li>
<li>Which colleges are you applying for? - Cornell, Duke, Upenn, Columbia, CMU, JHU</li>
<li>Lastly, how many times are you going to take the SAT (indicate how much time you have left for practice. - 1 more month, 1 more time in May</li>
</ol>
<p>Basically all I need is a 100 point jump in CR. Math and Writing are already finished.</p>
<p>I would take what lebronjames says with a grain of salt. In all honesty, taking over 20 or even 15 Practice tests is absolutely ridiculous and books such as Kaplan’s & McGraw Hill are both a waste of time and money.</p>
<p>^While I do agree that Kaplan and McGraw Hill are both a waste of time and money, I do believe that taking many practice tests is the way to go (for us non-gifted students). For some students, like Jersey (2400 scorer) that is obviously way over the top, but for many of the students here, practice is the only way to a 2200+ or whatever. </p>
<p>My 2 cents</p>
<ol>
<li>2180- 740 math 780 reading 660 writing 7 essay</li>
<li>Once</li>
<li>Every one in the BB</li>
<li>11th</li>
<li>BB and Underground guide to the sats</li>
<li>Start of 11th grade</li>
<li>2300</li>
<li>Writing</li>
<li>Columbia-NYU Stern-Northwestern-etc</li>
<li>1 maybe maybe 2. not alot</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>November 2009: 1900 (CR 630, W 610, M 660), March 2010 (CR 580, W 690, M 800)</li>
<li>twice</li>
<li>two from the BB</li>
<li>11</li>
<li>Barrons (Don’t use much; only for vocab) and Blue Book</li>
<li>the day of the March SAT exam</li>
<li>2200-2300</li>
<li>Critical Reading</li>
<li>Cornell, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>October 2010 - so that’s a lot of time</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Score Range - 1300/1880 M 720 CR 580 W 580 8 essay</li>
<li>How many times did you take the SAT? - three times… from 1160->1270->1300</li>
<li>How many practice tests did you use? - BB book tests</li>
<li>Your current grade - 11</li>
<li>Which books did you use? - BB</li>
<li>You have been practicing since…? - what feels like forever</li>
<li>What is your ideal score range (that seems possible to you) - mid 700s every section</li>
<li>What is your weakest section? - reading and writing</li>
<li>Which colleges are you applying for? - UPenn, JHU, MIT, UCLA, NYU</li>
<li>Lastly, how many times are you going to take the SAT (indicate how much time you have left for practice. - hopefully last time in June</li>
</ol>
<p>my gpa is real high im not stupid. i just never have really “gotten” the reading or writing. like for passage based questions i got only 5 wrong but died on the sentence completion (vocab) and writing was just generally bad (58 raw) then i thought i wrecked the essay but ended with an 8 and only -3 on math and brought me to a 720.</p>
<p>any advice would be great</p>
<ol>
<li>2300+</li>
<li>Not yet, taking in MAY.</li>
<li>About 20?</li>
<li>10th</li>
<li>Collegeboard Blue, Hack the SAT, Kaplan, Barron, Grubers</li>
<li>Passively since last year, intense now (it’s my summer vacation) until May and June tests</li>
<li>2350~2400</li>
<li>CR. Writing (only need essay help, gets 4/5) and Math are pretty much perfect in many Practice tests.</li>
<li>Pipe dream: Harvard, Princeton, Yale</li>
<li>I’m taking in May and June.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Score Range: 1840 overall 600 CR; 590 M; 650 W w/ 8 essay</li>
<li>How many times did you take the SAT? Once (Jan. '10)</li>
<li>How many practice tests did you use? 3/10 practice tests from blue book</li>
<li>Your current grade: 11th</li>
<li>Which books did you use? blue book</li>
<li>You have been practicing since…? a week prep. before SAT exam, now repeating week prep. rituals for ACT</li>
<li>What is your ideal score range (that seems possible to you) 2000-2100</li>
<li>What is your weakest section? Balanced in Reading/Math, but my fill-in-sentence vocab. is terrible (14/19 on that); passage-based is a little better. In Math I just feel like the curve really screwed me over? 590 was better than expected, but I aim to pull off atleast mid-600s in math with prep. Here’s my section breakdown for math, I don’t really know how to evaluate that cause again, I have trifling mistakes across the board:
(As you well know, first col. = correct, second col.= incorrect, third col. = omit)
NUMBER & OPERATIONS
EASY QUESTIONS 1 0 0
MEDIUM QUESTIONS 5 2 0
DIFFICULT QUESTIONS 2 2 0
TOTAL 8 4 0
ALGEBRA & FUNCTIONS
EASY QUESTIONS 4 1 0
MEDIUM QUESTIONS 6 1 0
DIFFICULT QUESTIONS 4 1 3
TOTAL 14 3 3
GEOMETRY & MEASUREMENT
EASY QUESTIONS 3 1 0
MEDIUM QUESTIONS 6 1 0
DIFFICULT QUESTIONS 2 1 1
TOTAL 11 3 1
DATA ANALYSIS, STATISTICS, & PROBABILITY
EASY QUESTIONS 4 0 0
MEDIUM QUESTIONS 2 0 0
DIFFICULT QUESTIONS 0 1 0
TOTAL 6 1 0 </li>
<li>Which colleges are you applying for? UVA, William and Mary, Rice, UPenn, then a bunch of llower state schools (Va. Tech, GMU, JMU, VCU)</li>
<li>Lastly, how many times are you going to take the SAT (indicate how much time you have left for practice. 2 months for June SAT, only going to begin study after ACT this saturday. If needed, one more time in the fall. Unsure about fall testing since I still need to get the 3 SAT subject tests out of the way; hopefully I’m happy with my scores on those after one testing so I can focus on SAT Reasoning. </li>
</ol>
<p>Thanks lebron, and tell those Cavs to stop losing to the Celtics. I hate them.</p>
<ol>
<li>2290 on PSAT and SAT, with 780 math, 790 writing, 720 CR on both.</li>
<li>I took the SAT one time.</li>
<li>I didn’t use any practice tests.</li>
<li>I’m a sophomore.</li>
<li>I didn’t use any books.</li>
<li>I haven’t practiced.</li>
<li>2350-2400.</li>
<li>CR.</li>
<li>Various Ivies and state schools(in NC).</li>
<li>Most likely two times.</li>
</ol>
<p>Jersey13,</p>
<p>Taking 15-20 practice is ridiculous for the intelligent such as yourself. Some people, like Noitaraprep who wrote the famous CR guide, took over 25 practice tests to attain the famous 2400. It’s all about who you are and your current situation.</p>
<p>Okay, this maybe a little off topic…but I would really appreciate it if someone could review the different non-CB books with practice tests (PR, Kaplan, McGraw-Hill & Barron’s). Maybe, OP would have a good reply for this since he is familiar with so many different test-books. The reviews preferably would address the practicality and comparative difficulty of the questions with regards to official tests. Thanks to anyone who replies to this!</p>
<ol>
<li>March SAT: 2110. 640 CR, 740 M, 730 W</li>
<li>March was my 1st</li>
<li>At least 10. </li>
<li>11</li>
<li>Princeton, Kaplan, BB editions 1 and 2</li>
<li>December</li>
<li>2200+ or 2250+</li>
<li>Critical reading. The passages kill me since I wasn’t born here :(</li>
<li>Cornell, UCLA, UC Berkeley, John Hopkins</li>
<li>I think May will be my last one, unless I don’t break 2200.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>2120 (690 Cr, 710 M, 720 W 8e)</li>
<li>Two </li>
<li>Zero</li>
<li>11</li>
<li>BB (1st ed - no practice tests, read a few pages and did several practice questions)</li>
<li>Haven’t really gotten to any real prepping, just a couple of light study sessions the week of so I suppose you could say March 2010</li>
<li>2220-2250</li>
<li>CR</li>
<li>WUSTL, UCLA, Wake Forest, Brandeis, University of Rochester, and other top publics (OOS for me)</li>
<li>One more attempt, most likely in June (2 months)</li>
</ol>
<p>@scionn: try kaplans SAT critical reading book. plus take at least 5+ practice tests the month before.
@idk…
haha, well, i started learning english in 6th grade. take that, lol. anyways, you are pretty good. try kaplans SAT Critical reading book. their passages help and they also have decent solutions.
@crouch88
start with bluebook, then you will advance.
do them in order:
kaplan
Mcgrawhills
PR
Barrons.
Now try taking bluebook tests, or official 10 real SATs again. you will see the difference. (how much you advanced=)
@jersey. well, thanks for the input! i started learning english 4 and a half years ago. i dont know, for native speakers, but SAT needs practice. and look, 30 practice tests arent that many. lets say you do 2 a week? highly achievable in 4 months.
also kaplan prep guide is a waste of time and money. but, Kaplan practice tests are extremely accurate.
@kmigasde
for writing, buy 411 writing questions for the SAT. otherwise you are in good shape.
@jerrry4445
ARGHHH! DONT start with barrons! choose a different prep book and buy kaplans SAT practice tests.
@candynobad373
buy klasstutoring SAT supplement. it gives you answers to bluebook, so that will dramatically help you understand the mindset of the test writers.
@jkpark8010
you seem like a korean, (no offense, cause of the name =)
ditto my comment for candy. for CR sometimes you have to understand the mindset of the testtaker.
@prattennis_1
buy grubers SAT prep book. it helps a lot for a math refreshener.
@purplepotato
wow, good job! with no practice? well, try to finish at least the bluebook. that will be fit for you.
@cornetking222
i wholeheartedly agree with you.</p>
<p>best of luck GUYS!!! (and or GALS!!)
yours,
lebron</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Thanks. By the way, I was wondering…did you list the tests in terms of increasing difficulty?</p>
<p>@crouch
yes. that way, you will practice, but also learn to expect the order of difficulty.
actually barrons are not that bad. they are pretty helpful for hard questions</p>
<p>Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll check it out
and haha nice. I started in 4th grade</p>